Apples Upgrade policy
This thread reminds me a lot of the dot Mac one when that broke cover. I was right royally pissed at losing my mac email address but Apple stuck to their guns and I stuck to mine. They never did get any cash out of me. I am over it now. Apple are relatively speaking a teeny company, far smaller than their reputation would suggest. These guys produce some great great software but they don't have a lot of financial breathing space. Their policy is that on the whole, upgrades will be bought and paid for as new products. No 'hey you can get this for 5 bucks if you bought the older one last month'.
We swallowed this pill with dot mac, and I am ok with it now. Having just spent the weekend going through yet another windows session with a close relative because the damn system wont work, I am very grateful Apple are out there. If you are a casual Mac user, you probably wont know that the updates are out there, or for that matter, macrumors.com. The guys who love it should have taken on board how the company plays the game by now and accept it, or go to the dark side. I spend far too much of my spare time hearing people run my Mac into the ground about an hour before they plead with me to fix their damn PC because it has died again. We need to keep that in mind. These apps are not made by tooth fairies, they are made by guys who have families to support, just like the rest of us.
Make do with what you have, like I do, or pay for the new version, or go with XP. Thats the choice....
